This is a magnified image of the structure of the cell wall of a diatom from marine sediment collected off the coast of Namibia. This is a depth-coded image, meaning the colors you see correspond to ...

The Diatom Section of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History houses a research collection of diatoms that is worldwide in scope, with particular strengthes in North America, Asia, and ...

A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus gave up on photosynthesis and now get their carbon straight from their environment, thanks to a bacterial gene picked up by an ancestor.

A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus, gave up on photosynthesis and now get their carbon straight from their environment, thanks to a bacterial gene picked up by an ancestor ...

Despite thousands of years of inactivity in the sediment without light and oxygen, the investigated diatom species regained full viability. The study, published in The ISME Journal, was carried ...